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The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor
"You hear it, and a day later some of it is still there in the brainpan." That's Garrison Keillor's primary criterion for his choice of poems read on The Writer's Almanac, his syndicated daily radio program. You can catch the program on
The Writer's Almanac Web site, or download each show to your iPod, and hear the creator of Lake Wobegon recount the literary highlights of a particular day in history and read aloud a poem or two. Keillor intends his five-minute programs to be heard by people otherwise occupied, whether driving to work or changing a diaper, so he's looking for poetry that "cuts through the static and delivers some good thing."
On the
Writer's Almanac site, you can subscribe to the free daily e-mail newsletter, check out text versions of poems read, and browse an archive of 10 years' worth of selections and the occasional interview with a poet whose work has been heard on the show. Poets whose poems Keillor has chosen to read range from the greats, such as Shakespeare and Wordsworth, to contemporary poets such as May Swenson, Rodney Jones, Erica Jong, Jim Harrison, Sarah Manguso, and Carol Masters.
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